Perfect Play-dough Recipe

To all teachers, mommies, daddies, friends, and family of small children:

This has been the best recipe by far. Usually play-dough will dry out quickly and crumble, but not this one. My friend Susan from my last preschool job shared this one with me, and I want to share it will all lf you!

Ingredients.....
2 cups of flour
1 cup of salt
2 to 4 teaspoons of cream of tartar
2 tablespoons of oil
2 cups of water
food coloring or koolaid mix (the non sugar kind)


In 2 cups of water, mix in the food coloring or koolaid (it is easier to mix the color in the water than in the dough itself).

In a big pot, pour in the flour, salt, cream of tartar, oil, and water mix.

Put the stove on MEDIUM heat (it is very important that it is on MEDIUM heat) That's half way to all of you non cooks!

As it is cooking, stir and stir and stir. Use a tablespoon because the playdough gets really tough! I used a wooden spoon and it broke on me so beware! lol

It will look like slime at first but then it will get lumpy. Once it is lumpy, you will see the dough come together and start looking like playdough.

Once it becomes solid, take it out of the fire. Place on counter to cool.

As it cools, kneed the playdough. This step is very important!

Keep kneeding every 10 minutes until it has cooled down completely.

Once it has cooled down, store the playdough in a air-tight container.

Make sure there is no water or that it is humid.

It is very important that the playdough is really cool because once stored in a container and it is warm or hot, condensation will happen and this will ruin the playdough!

Try this at home and let me know what you think!